After migrating to 3.2.1 I experienced a problem with rich:comboBox positioned on a modalPanel. Neither the input suggestion while typing nor the input suggesting via mouse click does work. Exactly the same code works on 3.2.0 and 3.2.0SR1.
I moved the comboBox code snipped from the modalPanel to the page and it works like expected. So, I think the problem is caused through the combination of comboBox and modalPanel.
Maybe the following code will help you to reproduce the problem:
<rich:comboBox id="test" value="#{testBean.selectedValue}" width="450" converter="testValueConverter" suggestionValues="#{testBean.valueList}"> <a4j:support event="onselect" action="#{testBean.applyValue}" reRender="id1,id2"/> </rich:comboBox>
Cofirmed.
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/RF-3622
Filed.